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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:51:21 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <34ead356397a90581e80837ef304b6ef@www.novabbs.org> References: <vbd6b9$g147$1@dont-email.me> <09ce1622b872f0b0fa944e868a8c97be@www.novabbs.org> <vbnisc$2hb59$1@dont-email.me> <2024Sep10.094353@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <vckf9d$178f2$1@dont-email.me> <vcl6hb$1abo5$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2830958"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="65wTazMNTleAJDh/pRqmKE7ADni/0wesT78+pyiDW8A"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$RnNhLatWFTNnZ0bZVfyJTuy7tsB3alBFLqawFFdTLIKB5rpdwCzyi X-Rslight-Posting-User: ac58ceb75ea22753186dae54d967fed894c3dce8 Bytes: 1704 Lines: 15 On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 1:12:11 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:35:26 -0000 (UTC), Kent Dickey wrote: > >> 3) You want to clamp the value to a reasonable range and continue. The >> reasonable values need to be looked up somewhere. > > This won’t work. The values outside the range are by definition non- > representable, so comparisons against them are useless. When a range is 0..10 both -1 and 11 are representable in the arithmetic of ALL computers, just not in the language specifying the range. So you are talking a language issue not a computer arithmetic issue.